European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 2 the stars and stripes August 1978 cold fire 78 of kick off with airland exercise Belgium a combined air and land exercise in the 1978 autumn forge series called cold fire 78 will be conducted in Central 18 the air exercise will coincide with a series of land a shape spokesman personnel and aircraft of the six nations contributing to the 2nd Allied tac air Force and the 4th Allied tac air Force will conduct flying operations along with land exercises to test the flexibility of the command and the Inte Gratio of natos air air operations will be mainly within Germany and Low Altitude operations will be kept to a minimum Over densely populated the spokesman conducted by Allied forces Central cold fire will include roles for elements of Allied air forces Central Europe and units of the Northern army Central army group and France avoids strains immunity is upheld for 3 iraqis in attack Paris a France accepted a claim of diplomatic immunity tuesday for three iraqi embassy staff members arrested for opening fire on French police and a surren dered palestinian the French decision was seen As a move to avoid strains in relations with Frances second largest Oil supplier and reportedly a customer for ils Mirage fighter it immediately touched off a protest by several Hundred who gathered in the courtyard of the medieval style Paris police Headquarters and decided to complain in a letter to president Valery discard Destain if the three were re the three arrested at the Climax of mondays embassy included two secretaries and an All on the iraqi diplomatic French foreign minis try officials a French policeman and an Iraq embassy guard were and the terrorist and three others were wounded in the which French police officials blamed on the incomprehensible behaviour of what they said monday night were Iraq embassy Wing personnel to participate in meet Germany Safe air Crews and maintenance support personnel from the 86th tac fighter Wing Here and weapons controllers from the 601st tac control Wing at Ger will go to the 18 to participate in a fighter interceptor weapons meet sponsored by the air forces aerospace defense according to air Force offi in six f4e phantoms and Crews from the 512th and 526th tac fighter squadrons will along with maintenance personnel from the 86th Avi the French decision to recognize the iraqis claim of diplomatic immunity clears the Way for their Quick return to which is Frances second largest Oil behind saudi with million tons of Oil sales in the first four months of in Iraq recently was reported to have signed to buy a num Ber of Mirage French defense minister Yvon Bourges visited Baghdad this reportedly to Seal the France also has contracted to install an experimental nuclear reactor in whose Oil income makes it one of the Rich est countries in the Middle the foreign ministry made Clear the French position after discussions tuesday morning with iraqi ambassador Mundher the iraqi ambassador had issued a statement late monday night claiming that the shootout was touched off by friends of the terrorist who were brought Back to the scene by a second terrorist who had escaped at the beginning of the denied firing police sources said the three iraqis also denied during questioning that they had shot at French their testimony and the ambassadors claim contradicted official French police accounts that the three iraqis tried to kill the terrorist after he had Laid Down Bis arms and was being led away by French the said to be a palestinian about 25 years claimed to be Ahmed the brother of a palestinian liberation organization representative assassinated in London last police but he carried no identifying and French police said they had not yet made a positive there was no Trace of the terrorist who escaped in the initial minutes of the nor any indication of his police dutch Bible Belt registers close to 100 polio cases Netherlands a nearly 100 cases of polio have been record id this summer amongst members of a dutch religious Community which is rigidly opposed to the victims Are almost entirely children or youngsters in their Early raised in Hollands Bible Belt where the preach ers word is the health ministry has tried without Success to get a vaccination program under Way in the Central part of the country where he epidemic to mainly concen but ibis has met with no re said a ministry its disappointing to say the most dutch parents have their children vaccinated against polio As a matter of but this has always been rejected by splinter groups of the dutch reformed who regard the disease As an example of divine strictly calvinist sects such As the dutch reformed communities and the Christian reformed churches have around whose life style is dictated by their interpretation of the must decide god must decide who is struck Down by not the said the father of one stricken child on dutch you will never understand unless you read the to showed pictures of epidemic you cant tamper with gods said one teenage girl in a he wanted me to gel if it haunt been it would have been something health authorities say that All the Vic Tims of the summer epidemic 95 at the latest count Are from families who re fuse vaccination on grounds of religious the disease has not spread to people out Side the religious a health ministry spokesman relatively mild officials described the polio virus As relatively mild and not a almost half the victims have already been discharged from hospitals and Are on their Way to re Only four of the listed cases Are expected to be seriously this contrasts with a 1971 polio outbreak in the Central dutch Village of Staphorst where five children died and a dozen other victims were crippled for some Vic Tims of the current epidemic also come from but the Village Doest want to talk about strict adherents of the sects ban to from their forbid sports on the Sab Bath and in a permissive age insist on Short haircuts for their sons and skirts for the some hardliners refuse to collect the state pension now a month for a married couple and reject any form the called William Tell is designed to give air defense units an Opportunity to demonstrate their proficiency in air defense this years Competition is scheduled for Buzzer held Tokyo a a Man attempted to drive Bis car close to prime minister Takeo Fukuda but police stopped him and held him for none of the cars in the motorcade was hit and no one was police bus and garbage service halted by Detroit walkout of private health however at victims of the current epidemic have Cei Ved medical assistance once some have lived to regret strict parental adherence to the teaching of the 1 wish parents would give More thought to what can happen if they dont have their children said Marianne do stricken by polio 15 years ago and raised if parents realized what you have to go through with to perhaps they would think de wit will walk with a pronounced Bai for the rest of her life and needs sped leather supports for her weakened baft and stomach savings sales halted temporarily f Washington up sales of i savings Bonds will be suspended until Kress approves an increase in the federa debt the Treasury department said the department said notice of the imme Diate suspension is being Given to about 000 corporations and other Agresto with authority to Issue relate Dib by on Page Congress is considering legislation to raise the debt ceiling from the current re Cord through july lot Federal debt was estimated Al the suspension of new sales will feet redemption of savings to the department has suspended my sales in the past when the debt when Federal spend needs income from taxes and the Treasury Bills and notes to the Public to the difference in for the current fiscal the depart ment expects to raise More than tit Bill Tai to pay for expenses that exceed a department spokesman said the i pension jul not affect payroll Sav tap companies will continue to deduct savings from wages and m Bonds will not be issued until Congress approves a higher debt the department also suspended Booi sales last fall while legislation to raise Thi debt ceiling was that lasted three temperatures Detroit a bus service and Gar Bage collection ground to a hah in the nations sixth largest City tuesday in a wild cat walkout called to protest mandatory the City sought a court order to end the which stranded morning commuters As 380 clerks and bus mechanics struck in sympathy with garbage col who Are angry Over the overtime bus runs Between the suburbs and de troit were not the strike is contrary to the provisions of the contract signed this past year and to stay out would cause in Repera be harm to the said George Matish a City attorney was making we dont know How much of the membership is out Matish the strike could include about 20 local unions hard to figure out a total reports from City officials put the number of 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